Alfred University - Kanakadea Yearbook (Alfred, NY)

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' HERBERT KIMBALI. CUMMINGS, S. B.,C1910D ln.ftr1a'1'or in New York Slate School of CFI'HllliL'5. S. B., Worcester Polytechnic lnstitute, chusetts State Normal School, 05-'06, Member of Sigma Xi and Tau Beta Pi. HEN it became necessary to select a new instructor for the College of Ceramics last fall, Mr. Cummings was chosen, first, because he was a good fellow in his Alma Mater, having snapped up all the literary honors and social distinctions in sight during his sojourn there, secondly, because his hair made such a beautiful harmony with the bricks in the Ceramic building. During his first year at Alfred he has become recognized as an expert in scientific clay work, a hard worker, and a sympathetic instructor. l lJYER B. LAKE, S. M. H9101 llI.Yfl'1lff0l' in Pd.l'JfL'J and Chmlislrjv. S. B., Syracuse University, '09g S. M., '10, Member Syracuse Chemical Club. UDDICNLY a swarm of Gases with endless tails of formulae rose in the air and glared at me from the darkness. Surprised, I asked who had raised these spirits with their suspicious odors. And the voice replied: It isa master to whom the spirits are subject. He has controlled them only a year hut his broad intelligence and persistent labor have achieved splendid results. So modest and quiet is he that you hardly suspect the stores of knowledge he possesses. There he is now. I looked,---and behold, it was Professor Lake. Then the clock struck nine and l awoke, an hour too late for Qualitative. 16 'l0g Pupil of E. Harlow Russell, Massa-

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Etsu: BINNS, H9105 Imtrucfor in ffrt, New York State Sfboolof Ceramicx. Student in New York State School of Cer- amics, '02-'053 Art Students' League, New York City, '06-'075 Teacher of Art, Ethical Culture School, New York City, '05-'l0. E are liable to think of an artist as one who indulges in sunset visions and lives in an ideal world of symmetry and heauty. Not so with Miss liinns. Though an experienced artist, she is quite at home in this workaday world of ours, where some are horn crooked, some acquire crookedness, and things get snarled up once in a while in spite of us. Practical and wide awake, in the classroom and out, she sees the sunrise as well as the sunset, and translates her visions of ideality into the homely hut nohle language of labor and service. J. NELSON Noawoon, PH. Bi, A.M., Cl9l0D A'.fsatri11tr Prafifssor qf Hixfofji' mul Political bl.'inu'r. Ph. B., Alfred University, '063 A. M., University of Michigan, 'O93 Instructor in History and Economics, Olean CN. YJ High School, '06-075 Graduate Scholar in American History, University of Wis- consin, ,07-'083 Peter White Fellow in American History, University of Michigan, ,08-'09, Fellow in American History, Cornell University, '09-'l0, Member American Historical Association and Amer- ican Political Science Association. OMR men dazzle hy theatrical displays of hrilliant thought and pointed epigranig Professor Norwood convinces hy the logic of patient study and hroad experience. With him there is no aristoemcy of learning. He is a student everytime and everywhere, ready to learn from the greenest freshman and competent to teach the wisest senior. Though he has studied at many different universities, his quiet, unpretentious manner makes his students feel that he is a comrade with them in a mutual search for Truth. His first year's lahor in his Alma Mater as associate professor of history and political science has heen eminently successful. 15

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and helpfulness to the students. Mrs. Stanton early cultivated a W N3 11,5 4 . ..., - I., .X f' .- - L slllllwit - U- ' f' EI EQ! + + S . W , ii MRS. LOISANNA TOMLINSON STANTON ' h h d 1 st re ret that the students and alumni learned of 'i0 p :,1.5':g.v T was wit t e eeie. g 0 0 'S XI' ' EL w e vm 5 W 4, if 9 A -Lag fs in B i' 5 'f fX f I 1. , 'H nf' L Ty, the retirement of Mrs. Stanton. During the many years which she has spent in the Alfred University library, she has proved herself to be most efficient in her work as well as being a source of inspiration natural taste for art and literature, through which she has become acquainted with the world's great masterpieces. qi In early life she became the wife of Dr. Volney Van R Philadelphia, making her home there until her husband's death, only a few years after their marriage. In l885, after several years of teaching in New jersey, Mrs. Stanton came to Alfred to do editorial work a part of the time, also acting as preceptress in the University. In 1891 she took up the work in the library, first to act as a supply, but two years later to take charge there. The subsequent years Mrs. Stanton has made profitable for the University, as well as for herself, for the University, because she, in her interest in the growth of the library unselfishly continued to give her time and energy I0 the work here when she might have had triple the salary in another place, and for dd to her already wide knowledge by ensselaer Stanton of herself, by improving every opportunity to a extensive reading and study. 'il No one can become acquainted with Mrs. Stanton without recognizing the broad Culture and rehnement which go with a wide knowledge ofthe finer arts. The trustees, the faculty and the students of Alfred University cannot say too much in appreciation of her services. . J 17